[TeMPOraL]

> maybe someday I can evolve to look at the smartphone as a utilitarian device without the addictive qualities.

Good luck.

You won't though, "because sekhurity" - the trend points at everything using your phone as a second factor, and not even via the authenticator app, but vendor-specific push notifications, on a remotely attested phone. Banks and media companies are pushing hard for it.

[jkepler]

And this in spite of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US strongly recommending against using SMS as a 2nd factor authentication since 2016!

[rrr_oh_man]

Nobody said anything about SMS

[TeMPOraL]

Why yes. Because SMS isn't good enough, the sekhurity industry decided everyone needs to use apps instead, since they can communicate over SSL and are harder to spoof, and then threw in remote attestastion for extra sekhurity.